Red Medicine

An Introduction to Workers' Self-Management w/ Jess Thorne


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Jess Thorne returns to the podcast to discuss workers' self-management – from the Lucas Plan of the 1970s to Yugoslavian workers' councils. She explains how workers have challenged the idea that innovation only happens thanks to top-down management structures and asks what worker autonomy offers in the face of current political problems.

Jess Thorne is a trade union organiser who has spent the last two years assisting health care assistants with a rebanding campaign. She is also a labour historian and has contributed to journals such as European History Quarterly, Labour History Review and History Workshop Journal.

Tickets for Festival of the Oppressed 2025: https://revsoc21.uk/festival2025/

Jess' report on workers' self management: https://autonomy.work/portfolio/worker-led-innovation/ 

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Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington

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